Prince Andrew’s spin doctor has stepped down after palace officials expressed their fury at a botched attempt to discredit the royal’s sex abuse accuser, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Mark Gallagher, nicknamed ‘the backroom fixer’, was hired almost a year ago in a bid to repair the Prince’s scandalised reputation.
The Duke of York, 61, is facing accusations from alleged victim Virginia Roberts that she was forced to have sex with him on three occasions when she was aged 17 in 2001.
